SMS Mevac receives new order from Forpost Management

Friday, 21 May 2010 14:58:01 (GMT+2)

Germant plant equipment provider SMS Group's subsidiary SMS Mevac has received an order from Moscow, Russia-based Forpost Management for key components of a ladle metallurgical center to be integrated into the OMZ plant at Kolpino.

According to an SMS statement, this comprises a 120-mt ladle furnace with slewing gantry as well as two tank degassing units (VD and VOD). The aim of OMZ is to increase steel production to 600,000 mt per year. Ingots up to a weight of 500 mt can be realized by means of the ladle metallurgical center. Commissioning of the equipment is scheduled for the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011.

In 2009, SMS Siemag successfully delivered and commissioned an electric arc furnace for the same OMZ plant No. 8 at Kolpino.

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